Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is backing a city-sponsored program that offers financial assistance for full-time students who want to attend community college, according to the Nashville Business Journal.
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A gap in professional skills is making it hard for the U.S. healthcare industry to fill jobs, a recent report published by job search website Indeed found.
Physicians are generally happy in their lives and jobs, but there are parts of work that cause unhappiness, according to a joint study released by CompHealth and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Nashville, Tenn., and San Jose, Calif., had the lowest unemployment rate among large U.S. metropolitan areas in January, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health is looking to fill more than 500 open positions, including 250 nursing jobs, said Scott Hawig, the system's executive vice president of finance, chief financial and administrative officer and treasurer.
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Healthcare added 20,800 jobs in February, with hospitals contributing 4,200 to that total, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Nurses at Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital say there's a staffing crisis at the facility and are demanding that administrators fix the problem, according to the Olean Times Herald.
Michigan lawmakers have reintroduced the Safe Patient Care Act, which would mandate nurse-to-patient ratios at hospitals, according to a Daily Mining Gazette report.
Employers in the healthcare business are the best companies to work for in 11 states, according to an analysis by Zippia, a career search and employment services company.
Bay Medical Sacred Heart in Panama City, Fla., will not resume baby delivery services, affecting 20 employees, according to The News Herald.